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COVID-19 in local history web archives: What we collect and why

Archive-It

By Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Web Archivist for Archive-It. Archive-It’s crawling machines churned with activity as our partners sought to preserve records of the microscopic forces moving their operations to makeshift home offices around the world. Archived blog post from the Queens Public Library’s collection.

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e-Records 2017 – “Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed” Conference Recap

The Texas Record

The 2017 e-Records conference delivered on all fronts hosting a variety of vendors, local government and state agency representatives and, of course, plenty of staff from the two hosting state agencies: Department of Information Resources (DIR) and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC).

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Survey reports skills in technology and Digital Preservation will be most desired in the next five years

Preservica

Ithaka S+R recently published a report based on findings from A*CENSUS II Archives Administrators Survey , which gathered data from 746 of the most senior archives leaders and decision-makers. With scalable storage, quick setup times and no need for complex IT assistance.

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The Architecture of the Archive project

Archives Blogs

Intrigued by the type of records held in the State Archives Collection, and the challenges in storing, preserving and making accessible our State’s official archives, UWA Lecturer Mark Sawyer suggested using the SRO as a “case study” and to have his first year architecture students develop proposed designs for a new SRO Search Room.

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RIM Month Virtual Colloquium, date and lineup announcement for April 7th 1-3pm EST!

The Schedule

With COVID-19 restricting our ability to collect and preserve physical materials, Duke University Archives has changed its focus to collecting electronic university records of historical value. A case study in creating a Getty retention compliant electronic file naming system for Procurement. Hillary Gatlin, Duke University.

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Preservica, IRMS and ARA digital preservation training a great success!

Preservica

Over the course of 2015/16 the Preservica team has been pairing up with the Information and Records Management Society (IRMS) and ARA (UK) to deliver a series of practical workshops and webinars on digital preservation. Next up, we’ll be attending and presenting at the annual IRMS conference in Brighton.

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Why we need long-term thinking for long-term records

Preservica

As records management professionals, we’re still fighting the thorny issue of getting people to pay attention in the normal course of business operations to records that need care and protection. The other side of the coin of course is compliance and risk mitigation.